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A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and…
A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolic way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the independency [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiastical presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tried / by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolick way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the indepencie [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiasticall presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tryed / by Samuell Rutherfurd ...
London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642
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Q. 4. But the Ancients knew no Lay-Elders.
Answ. Nor doe we de jure know them, they are Church-men, and should be for all their life-time entertained upon the Churches charges, what our Church, de facto, doth tolerate by reason of our Churches poverty, is another question.
Answ. Nor doe we de iure know them, they are Church-men, and should be for all their life-time entertained upon the Churches charges, what our Church, de facto, doth tolerate by reason of our Churches poverty, is another question.
Q. 5. How is it that your ruling-Elders do not give imposition of hands,1 and bless Pastors,2 when they are ordained, and so the lesser should bless the greater? So the author of Survey. So D. Field.
Q. 5. How is it that your ruling-Elders doe not give imposition of hands,1 and blesse Pastors,2 when they are ordained, and so the lesser should blesse the grerter? So the author of Survay. So D. Field.
- 1Survey, c. 16. p. 17;Surv•y, c. 16. p. 17;
- 2